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Admission Requirements

All students enrolling in the doctoral program must have a bachelor’s degree from
an accredited college or university. At a minimum, their undergraduate training must
include principles of economics, money and banking, intermediate microeconomic and
macroeconomic theory, financial management, one year of statistics, and one semester
of calculus. (See foundation courses listed below). Admission decisions will be based
primarily on the applicant’s undergraduate grade point average (GPA), Graduate Record
Examination (GRE) or Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), and letters of recommendation.
Preferred levels of performance will be a 3.0 GPA, 1100 (combined raw scores for verbal
and quantitative) on the GRE, or 550 on the GMAT. These levels will be viewed as general
guidelines since particular strength in one set of credentials may be viewed as sufficient
to offset a modest deficiency elsewhere. Additionally, international students must
score a minimum of 600 on the TOEFL Exam.